With a name that sounds like a 1973 Frank Zappa jam-session bootleg, Bob’s Fish & Seafood is just as inaccessible to the mainstream public, many of whom probably cruise by the bedraggled edifice a few times a month, totally unaware that, despite a brutally desolate location and desperately faded signage, deep inside Bob and his crew are cooking up some of the best dang fried catfish in the Metro.
Located at 3340 N. Kelley on a mostly barren row of surprisingly sparse blocks, Bob’s Fish & Seafood has been a decently-kept secret for many years now, plaintively offering plenty of fresh fish on ice such as ocean perch, whiting and tilapia, as well as more outré eats such as frog legs and alligator, for mostly competitive prices, with none of the pretension you’d find at the more upper-crust of local fishmongeries.